Raiders owner Mark Davis and his team expected to get approval for move. (John Locher/AP)

PHOENIX — So much for NFL owners being afraid to put a team in Las Vegas, the gambling capital of the world. The Raiders are about to be on the move once again, this time to Sin City.

It is expected that the owners in their Monday morning session at the league meetings will give the Raiders the approval — they need 24 out of 32 votes — to take the vagabond franchise to Las Vegas after the parameters of a last-minute attempt by Oakland to keep them in the Bay Area was criticized by Roger Goodell.

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For a league that craves stability and continuity in its franchises, the Raiders will be the third team in the last 14 months to gain approval to switch cities, following the Rams move from St. Louis to Los Angeles last year and the Chargers (who gained approval to move to LA last year) instead are making the move this year after they couldn't get a stadium deal worked out in San Diego.

The plan is for the Raiders to remain in Oakland at the rundown Oakland Coliseum for the 2017-18 seasons, then play at UNLV in 2019 before their new $1.9 billion stadium is ready in 2020. It is the third time the Raiders will move since they went from Oakland to Los Angeles in 1982 and then back to Oakland in 1995.